A few weeks ago Sujit Eapen (fellow Distinguished Engineer) and I shared our views on the benefits of working in fintech and the importance of technology excellence at Morgan Stanley. We highlighted the impact and how junior level employees can be effective and make a difference, dispelling the myths around the lack of innovation, outdated tech and more – we represented the diverse leaders, thinkers, problem solvers, influencers at the firm. The interns of summer 2025 heard from us sharing our differentiated career backgrounds, our industry insights and our unique perspectives representing ourselves and our divisions.

We covered various topics like:

• What does it mean to be a Distinguished Engineer?
• How do you become appointed a Distinguished Engineer?
• What characteristics you should exhibit to be considered becoming a Distinguished Engineer?
• How to build brand in early stages of a career? How does having a personal brand correlate becoming a Distinguished Engineer?
• What keeps me up at night (for me – how is developing with the opensource is, and how to make those capabilities available internally better)?
• How does a day look like – and how do I manage work-life-balance?

And many more anecdotes we told around mishaps and good things and more 😀 Thank you for the organization, Jessica, Abbygaile and Yein, and looking forward to see other fellow Distinguished Engineers’ sessions in the other locations!